Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War Open ebook -

Marcus M. Payk is Professor of Modern History at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He is author of Frieden durch Recht? Der Aufstieg des modernen Vlkerrechts und der Friedensschluss nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg.

Roberta Pergher is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922-1943.

This is an excellent collected volume, well-conceived and very well written. . . . This is not at all a top-down history of the diffusion of ideas about national self-determination. Rather, it is an examination of the ways in which these ideas were taken up, re-fashioned, and reasserted at many levels to serve local and regional agendas, while at the same time influencing international debates about the meanings and possible implementations of self-determination.